Land roller



AL F. MOELLER LAND ROLLER Filed Jan. 24, 1924 March 30 Patented lVlar.30,1926. i y l l l UNITED -S`Til5iTl`iS .PATIENIY QFFleC-E. 'l

l l ARTURO F. ivroELLEn, or SAN ranno, Mexico. i

LAND VRomarin.. l Application mea January 24, 19M; sei-iai Noyesaesi.

To. @ZZ 'wv/nom, it may conce/1,171. Besides forming a special functionunder Be it knowncthat I. ARTURO F. MOELLER, a certain conditions aswill presentlybecome 1Sl citizen of t-he United States, residing at Sanapparent, these arch members 16 serve to re- Pedro, Coahuila, Mexico,have invented cerintorce the frame. tain new and useful Improvements inLand .The `cross bars or slats 44 are disposed up- Rollers, ofwliich thefollowing is a speeion the archl member 1G transversely of the cation. lf implement frame for supporting reception Go The present inventionrelates to certain ol a suitable weighting means such as a sack new anduseful improvements in land rollers, 45, illedv with earth or othervsuitable heavy and has for its principal object to'provide a material.The slats 44 are retained in place novel supporting structure forweighting `by providing the ends of' the same with material such assacks ol earth or other grooves as is indicated by dot-ted lines in Fig.55 heavy material. Y 2, in which the central portions Ot the arch In thedrawing, Fig. 1 is a top plan view members 16 may seat, and inorder toretain of the implement embodying my invention, vthe sack 45 upon theslats 44, outstanding and pins 46 movably secured in the arch mem- F ig.2 is an enlarged fragmentary longivbers 16 at the edges of the platformformed 6o tudinal sectional view, taken substantially by the slats 44.on the line 2 2 of Fig. l. `That I claim as new is:

i9 Referring to thev drawing in detail, the .In an agriculturalimplement of the present invention embodies a rectangular classdescribed, a rectangular frame of the open'frame elongated transverselyas shown open type, a pair of archmembers disposed 65 in Fig. 1, andpreferably composed of a front between the `longitudinal sides of theframe, bar 5, a rear bar 6, and a pair of end bars T, a plurality ofslats lyingl alongside of each rigidly connected in end to end relationat otlieron the intermediate portions ot" the the corners ot' the frameby means of angle arch members, and a pair of pins projecting pieces 8that are riveted or otherwise secured. through each arch member forholding 4.the 70 in place. slats in -place thereon Vvand projectingabove The frame bars 5, 6 and 7 are preferably the slats for maintainingweight material on ol' channel cross section as shown in Fig. 2, theslats. with their flanges dirfcted outwardly, the 2. In anagricultural.implement ot the angle irons 8 being riveted to the webs otclass described, ay rectangular' open traine,a 75 the frame members. Ashaft 14 is journaled pair ot arch members .dispose-d transversely toextend transversely of the frame and has of the,y frame,` a plurality otslats having` mounted thereon a drum 20 of any suitable t ansverselyextending alining grooves vfor construction. The front and rear framebars receiving theV arch mcmbers pins extending 5 and G are conneetedbymeans ot a pair ofv through 4the arch members one on each side 80.

spaced arch members 6 that are arranged at of the plurality '0f Slamopposite sides of the longitudinal center ol In testimony whereojlfIailix my signature. the frameand which have theirends,suitably Y i K i ysecured vas by means of bolts or rivets to the ARTUROVF. MOELLER. framebars 5 and 6 against the inner surfaces f of the webs thereof.

